A major crisis has been unfolding within the Dutch Government as a consequence of the anti-Israeli violence following a Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam on November 7.

A split occurred within the Dutch cabinet when Nora Achahbar, State Secretary for Benefits and Customs, resigned on November 15 over statements by her colleagues a few days earlier during heated discussions on the matter, which she deemed racist.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), the biggest party in the coalition, and a staunch supporter of Israel, has been vocal — writing on X on November 13, he blamed Moroccans, whom he said “hunted Jews”.

“We have a Moroccan problem,” he said, adding he wanted to take away Dutch nationality for Moroccans in the country.